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  1. Randolph J. Holocaust testimony

    Videotape testimony of Randolph J., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1913. He recalls his family's affluence; strong patriotism and food shortages during World War I; being taught Germany had won; his bar mitzvah; attending public school and gymnasium; cordial relations with non-Jews; gradual impoverishment as antisemitism increased in the 1930s; one sister's emigration to the United States; meeting his future wife; attending university in 1931; violent harassment; believing Hitler was a temporary phenomenon; traveling to Zurich in 1933 to continue his education, then to Paris via Geneva,...

  2. Records from the Archives of the Jewish Community of Iannina, Greece

    Records of the Jewish Community of Ioannina (1947-2014), one of the oldest Jewish communities in Greece, whose members are predominantly Romaniot Jews. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence files of the Community Council as well as documentation related to the restitution of Jewish property after the Holocaust. Among the records are the minutes of the Community Council’s meetings; notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence with other Greek Jewish Communities, the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece, institutions inside and outside the country; financial documents: l...

  3. Records relating to the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca by the United States Holocaust Memorial Council

    The collection consists of four folders of photocopied materials from the files of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office. In general, the files concern Giorgio Perlasca and his work to assist and rescue Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. Among the copied materials are letters, newspaper and magazine articles, testimonies, and interviews concerning the investigation of Giorgio Perlasca conducted by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Campaign Office.

  4. Red and black plastic cigarette holder used by a Czech Jewish refugee

    1. Frank Meissner family collection

    Cigarette holder used by Franz Meissner. Frank, age 16, left Czechoslovakia in October 1939 because of the increasing Nazi persecution of Jews as Czechoslovakia was dismembered by Nazi Germany and its allies. With the encouragement of his family, he left for Denmark with members of Youth Aliyah, a organization that helped people to emigrate to Palestine. In 1943, the Germans began to deport all Jews from Denmark. Frank was warned that the Gestapo was looking for him and he was smuggled on a fishing boat to Sweden. He had been receiving weekly letters from his family, even after their deport...

  5. Red and yellow floral handkerchief carried by a young Hungarian Jewish girl on the Kasztner train

    1. Bela Gondos family collection

    Floral handkerchief carried by 7 year old Judit Gondos when she left Budapest, Hungary, with her parents Bela and Anna on the Kasztner train in June 1944. It was a gift from her maternal aunt, Iren (Pircsi) Havas, in prewar Bekes. Jews were increasingly persecuted by the Nazi-influenced Hungarian regime. Bela worked on 2 or 3 forced labor battalions until released in 1942, because he was a physician. On March 19, 1944, Germany invaded Hungary and the authorities prepared to deport all the Jews from Hungary to concentration camps. In mid-May, Bela heard about the Kasztner train, negotiated b...

  6. Red leather photograph case carried by a Jewish Austrian refugee

    1. Lilly Morawetz collection

    Dark red leather photograph display case carried by Lilly Morawetz in her backpack in 1939 when she fled German occupied Prague, Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic) for France. She kept it with her while held in Gurs internment camp in 1940 and during her flight through Spain and Portugal to the US in 1941. After Germany annexed Austria in 1938, Lilly sent her youngest child, Margit, 16, to Paris. Lilly was visiting Margit that September when Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. She hurried back to Prague to sell their home. In March 1939, she was still in Prague when Germany anne...

  7. Red poster for the 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion

    1. Moszek Brycman collection

    Poster advertising a celebration for the 40th anniversary of Po'alei Zion at the Maison de la Chimie.

  8. Reich Ministry for Economics, Berlin Reichwirtschaftministerium, Berlin (Fond 1458)

    1. Russian State Military Archives (Osobyi) records

    Contains various records of the Reich Ministry for Economics: Circulars, orders, decrees and correspondence relating to restrict the rights of Jews in Germany and German occupied territories (including the Soviet Union, the Baltic republics, and Belorussia) with regard to personal and property insurance, issuing credit and bank loans, payment for work and sick pay. Includes stenographic reports of speeches, and minutes of secret meetings of senior Reich officials Hermann Goring, Walther Funk, and Labor Minister Franz Seldte on excluding Jews from the German economy and commerce, on conflict...

  9. Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

    1. M.17 - Documentation of the Polish Jewish Refugee Fund in Geneva, 1933-1940

    Report of the World Jewish Congress (WJC) regarding the situation of the Jews in Poland, Denmark, Finland, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Hungary, Switzerland, Czechoslovakia and Danzig, 1938

  10. Reports and correspondence re Gurs and other French concentration camps

    These papers offer some insight into conditions in French internment camps during the 1940s, in particular in Gurs. Most of the reports and correspondence are contemporary copies or transcriptions.

  11. Representation of Polish Jewry, Tel Aviv Reprezentacja Żydowstwa Polskiego, Tel Aviv (J25)

    This collection includes lists of Polish refugees in the Soviet Union; testimonies of survivors about the destruction of the Jewish communities in Poland; correspondence with the Polish Provisional Government regarding the actions and attitudes regarding Polish Jews in the present and future.

  12. Rescue Department

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Relief and Rescue Departments

    Included are files of Aryeh L. Kubowitzki and Rudolf Glanz, together with inquiries and locations concerning missing Jews and records of rescue work in post-war Europe. Box D104. Folder 1. List of incoming mail and cables, 1944 July 21-November 9 Box D104. Folder 2. Kubowitzki, Aryeh L., 1944-1946 Box D104. Folder 3. Rescue Committee minutes, 1944-1945 Box D104. Folder 4. Sephardic communities correspondence, 1942-1943 Box D104. Folder 5. Women's Institute of Jewish Studies, 1943 December-1944 February Box D104. Folder 6. Peace Aims Planning Committee, 1941-1944 Box D104. Folder 7. Post-war...

  13. Research Materials, Reports, and Publications

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs

    Box C79. Folder 4. The Jewish Catastrophe, Its Background and Aftermath, typed outline for publication, undated Box C79. Folder 5. Part I. Preliminaries, Yiddish draft, undated Box C79. Folder 6. Part I. Preliminaries, 2nd draft, 1944 Box C79. Folder 7. Part I. Preliminaries, 3rd draft, 1944 Box C79. Folder 8. Part I. Preliminaries, 4th draft (incomplete), 1945 Box C79. Folder 9. Part I. Preliminaries, reactions and reviews, 1945 Box C79. Folder 10. Part I. Preliminaries, Questionnaire for Chaplains in the Army (English, Yiddish), 1945 Box C79. Folder 11. Part I. Preliminaries, questionnair...

  14. Rhine River tour; Württemberg

    “GERMANY” "THE RHINE” Dark shots from from a boat on the Rhine River of the surrounding area. Castle on the hill. Trees. Smokestacks of boats on the water. The castle wall on the edge of a hill. Waterfront. Smaller castle on a terraced hill. “HALL IN WUERTEMBURG” Schwäbisch Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Steep stairs lead up to St. Michael’s Church. Houses line the slanted road. Nazi flag. St. Michael’s Church. Young girl approaches the camera, joined by a young boy and mother.

  15. Richard and Ernestine Benes papers

    The Richard and Ernestine Benes papers contains a diary, biographical material, and emigration and immigration documents relating to Richard and Ernestine Benes attempts to emigrate from Austria to the United States. The diary was written by Richard from June 6 - July 4 1941. In the diary Richard writes about their emigration from Austria to Prague, Berlin, Paris, and Spain as well as their time aboard the ship and arriving in New York City. Biographical materials include birth and baptism certificates, a marriage certificate, proof of citizenship, identification cards, passports (Reisepass...

  16. Richard Grune lithograph of a chained concentration camp prisoner suspended on a pole

    1. Richard Grune collection

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  17. Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp guard and a prisoner with a noose in the background

    1. Richard Grune collection

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  18. Richard Grune lithograph of a concentration camp guard threatening a cowering prisoner

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50598
    • English
    • overall: Height: 23.750 inches (60.325 cm) | Width: 17.000 inches (43.18 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.500 inches (24.13 cm) | Width: 8.500 inches (21.59 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  19. Richard Grune lithograph of a group of concentration prisoners gathered around 2 dead comrades

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50599
    • English
    • overall: Height: 12.598 inches (31.999 cm) | Width: 18.898 inches (48.001 cm) pictorial area: Height: 9.250 inches (23.495 cm) | Width: 17.125 inches (43.498 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those suspected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which puni...

  20. Richard Grune lithograph of a torture scene witnessed in a concentration camp

    1. Richard Grune collection
    • United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    • irn50607
    • English
    • overall: Height: 24.000 inches (60.96 cm) | Width: 16.000 inches (40.64 cm) pictorial area: Height: 7.875 inches (20.003 cm) | Width: 11.875 inches (30.163 cm)

    Lithograph created by Richard Grune soon after the war to publicize the barbaric conditions he experienced or witnessed as a prisoner in concentration camps and prisons in Germany from 1935-1945. Grune was a Bauhaus trained artist who moved to Berlin in February 1933. Hitler had been appointed Chancellor that January and was transforming the government to a Nazi-controlled dictatorship. Nazi ideology demanded racial and cultural purity and homosexuality was antithetical to this vision. Under the new government, those supected of violating a pre-existing statute, Article 6, §175, which punis...